Zócalo Public Square

Just as the UCLA Bunche Center for African American Studies released its 2015 Hollywood Diversity Report, Black List founder and CEO Franklin Leonard, Black-ish executive producer Brian Dobbins, Bunche Center director Darnell Hunt, and Creative Artists Agency agent Christy Haubegger talked with Hollywood Reporter executive editor Matthew Belloni about why the people Americans see onscreen don't look more like the rest of us. At an event co-presented by UCLA and UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, the panelists agreed that diversity sells, but studio executives are still playing catch-up with the nation's demographics and tastes.